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From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: David Heidelberger <david.heidelberger@ixit.cz>
Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: DNOTIFY to INOTIFY migration
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2014 10:21:02 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140310102102.3c886726@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <b59b1e4ede0b1d0a476c85465d480c8a@ixit.cz>

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On Fri, 07 Mar 2014 21:30:34 +0100 David Heidelberger
<david.heidelberger@ixit.cz> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> in linux kernel is DNOTIFY actually marked as deprecated, with superior 
> replacement INOTIFY.

Where is it marked as deprecated?  I would be very surprised if dnotify
wasn't supported indefinitely.

(I have no opinion on whether rpc.idmapd should be changed to use inotify,
except based on the "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" principle).

NeilBrown

> 
> Is any plan to migrate rpc.idmapd to INOTIFY? As I looked, it's just one 
> file.
> 
> If there is some on-going porting, I'd like to test/report bugs/send 
> patches, otherwise I'd like to try port it.
> 
> Thank you for answer
> David Heidelberger (okias)
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  reply	other threads:[~2014-03-09 23:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-03-07 20:30 DNOTIFY to INOTIFY migration David Heidelberger
2014-03-09 23:21 ` NeilBrown [this message]
2014-03-10  0:20   ` Al Viro
2014-03-10  0:56     ` NeilBrown
2014-03-10  1:45       ` Al Viro
2014-03-12 22:52         ` David Heidelberger
2014-03-12 23:11           ` NeilBrown
2014-03-10  0:55   ` David Heidelberger
2014-03-10  0:15     ` NeilBrown

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